How Do You Use Yours?
At Clickety Click we use cameras all the time. Obviously we use them at work, but we use them at home, on our holidays, when we are out and about… everywhere! This can make us irritating people to know – for example, take us to London and we have an irritating habit of stopping in the middle of pavements to photograph something!
But that’s to be expected, surely? We set up Clickety Click because we LOVE photography and we love photographs. Take my house for example: I can see five photographs from where I am sat now – and that’s just on the walls, I know that in the next room there are several in frames, hundreds in albums, and thousands in a box waiting to be sorted which date back to at least 1997 and the days of my Fuji APS.
But… when I thought about what is lurking in the box they are all from my school days, and only a small section of my albums are dedicated to my life in Sheffield and the last 6 years. When I thought about it I realised what the difference was. I had bought a digital camera. And now suddenly, all my photos are sat – badly organised and unedited in files on a hard drive because I haven’t taken the time to sort through them and use them in a way that I can truly appreciate them.
It’s all about effort. It’s no hardship to drop a film off at Boots (or your retailer of choice), collect prints a few hours later. Simple, and the only way to see your pics. Then it’s easy to throw out all the one’s where your finger has mysteriously crept into the edge of the shot. Meanwhile in the world of digital you have to sift through the files, get on your editing software to see if you can crop the offending finger out, idly wonder if it would look better in black and white, hunt out the memory stick, transfer the files and toddle off down to the shops. Which have closed because it’s taken so long.
So we at Clickety Click are doing a survey. We want to know how you use your camera now, what you do with all your pictures, and most importantly what you would LIKE to be able to do with them! Then we’ll be putting together the results and putting together a series of hints and tips to get people using their photographs and get them off the hard drive!
If you would like to take part the survey can be found by clicking HERE!